Jun 26 2009
Blissfully exited!
I am so very excited today. I am making hoops, being creative, playing with tapes and rolling around with beautiful tape colors! It’s so fun to think that in a few days, I’ll be at The Rothbury Festival, watching everyone play with the hoops I made! It’s amazing, I’ll have many new friends in just a matter of days! Yay!
I am starting the 1,400 mile journey sometime tomorrow. Starting out in Southern Florida, and driving ALL the way in the lightupwire.com RV, which is named “Ervie”. We will end in the little, but beautiful town of Rothbury, Michigan.
We are going a bit early, because Glen, who owns lightupwire.com gets to decorate the amazing Sherwood Forest with I believe, 800 feet of EL wire! I get to help too! It will be reallly fun to see the transformation of the most Magical place at Rothbury! If you haven’t seen any pictures of or haven’t experienced the Sherwood Forest, I say to you, GO check it OUT! Either in person while you are at Rothbury, or on line, if you can’t be there in person. It’ll make you wanna go next year. I had a blast playing and dancing during last years event. It totally made me want to go back again. That and the bands that are playing this year.
We get a bit of String Cheese Incident. How cool is that? They are making a whole festival really, really happy! That is why I think me and my hoops will be a hit. well I am HOPING for this to happen! Think good thoughts for me and my hoops please! I can’t wait to see a sea of hoopers out on the lawn, playing and groovin’ to the sounds of SCI. They are going to be GOOD!
Besides SCI, I am looking forward to seeing The Dead as well. I missed them at the Gorge in Washington, and I won’t miss them again! The crowd that these 2 bands will bring is definetly going to create a “family” vibe! A gigantic community of lovely, dancing, beautiful people!
Next up, for me anyway, is G. Love and Special Sauce. I have only seen him once, WAY back in the day, inside a small bar. I want to see him, and his band smiling, and enjoying the crowd, all under the sunshine! It will make for a great Summer day!
Now, I have to think about the fact that I will be working (A LOT) this year. We are not going to have a booth this year. Which is cool. What we are doing is having 3 carts roaming around the whole Festival. This puts us in a position of being able to be seen all over the place, and making it easier to sell our wares. Everyone NEEDS light up wire, ya know what EL wire is, right? Well you NEED it! 
So I am hoping to be able to roam around to all the sweet places of the whole festival, showing off my hoops in the daytime and playing with the light up wire at night. I would love to have a bunch of LED hoops for our carts at night, but do you know how expensive it is to get a bunch at once to re-sell? Man, it’s a lot!
There are many amazing acts at this Festival, check out the website to see the full line up. Not only is the music phenomenal, but the speakers, the various performers, the farmer’s market, the many vendors, and the art are all there to open up your mind. To see what other’s are doing to make a creative statement is very inspiring, and will hopefully start your wheels turning for your own creative (ad)ventures.
I can’t wait to dance and hoop in the grass among my fellow sun worshippers! Rothbury, here I come!
Oh… and here comes lightupwire.com as well! The website was having issues, but we THINK things are back to normal again, check us out, come play with us, get your wire and maybe a hoop to take “back” with you!
See you there….
Melissa Magic
